@vcrp first of all I believe tegra 4 is the best gaming cpu I have mentioned it before so please don't tell me that I am trying to say tegra 4 sucks. Secondly about the number of cores yes I know it's difficult to add 72 gpu cores. The tegra 4 out runs the A6x which is a massive achievement due to the A6x having such a large gpu size it could'nt work inside a smartphone efficiently and for tegra 4 to pack more power at a smaller size to a extent it can be places in phone than that is a big achievement. I am not baised I just believe snapdragon make the best cpu in terms of overall cpu/gpu/power efficiency.
The s4 had a weak gpu and the tegra 3 and Mali 400 were better but I think with claims Qualcomm have made which is the adreno 330 is twice as fast and consumes 40% less power than its predecessor they will no longer lag behind. Overall when it comes to wireless/power efficiently/cpu/gpu snapdragon 600/800 will not lag behind Nvidia or samsung in any department. Even if any cpu has a light edge with gpu 2013 cpu's are so powerful you will not able to tell the difference when using them benchmarks is a completly different story.
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Let’s first begin with the main highlights of this device, design, build quality, screen and camera!
When you first meet the 8x you will have a pleasant surprise, it’s just gorgeous and immediately hits you with its finest build material, the unibody shell is very rigid and has a very nice texture with excellent grip, the screen is protected by a metal frame and all the hardware button are made from metal of the same color as the phone, I have the funky blue version but after meeting the matte black 8x with its metal, black and glossy HTC logo I realized it’s looks even better, it screams class and upper end, words will not explain it enough until you meet the 8x in person.
The design is so good that everyone who has seen this phone was blown away.
The second best thing about this device is the screen, it’s razor sharp! At 340ppi it’s actually higher than Apple’s retina display, colors are also expertly calibrated, the screen is laminated so it appears seamless and floating over the gorilla glass surface, it's matches the One X now legendary SLCD2 screen, but certain angles don't match the flawless view angles on the One X. The screen is 4.3 inch which might feel small for One X lovers but size will always depend on your taste.
The third best thing about this phone are the cameras, yup both cameras, the main camera offers everything good in the One X camera and improves it further, mainly the low light performance is much improved over the One X with better lighting and less noise, I was just a little disappointed it misses the fast shutter burst mode on the One X.
Meanwhile the front camera has one of a kind wide angle lens where you can grab an entire room with one click, it’s almost surreal, perfect for taking pictures of yourself with friends/family, it’s also outputs in high quality with perfect colors and little noise (unlike the usual front camera quality) you will never run out of fun ideas using this camera, I just have one complaint which is the slight slowness in the viewfinder, I guess it was inevitable with such high quality processing. The main camera however is very speedy with super fast shutter speed and did I mention it has a dedicated physical camera button?
Video capture is excellent and HTC also offers photo enhancement software out of box, once you grab a photo you can edit and improve it using the photo enhancer app, in short it’s just an excellent and fun phone for photography.
Audio quality is equally excellent on every output thanks to the built-in amplifiers. As for battery life, I don’t usually abuse my device beyond phone, camera and social features, in other words I don’t spend hours at the browser or gaming and so the phone easily lasts over one day, sometimes closing two days.
I’m usually an Android user, but the windows operating system felt surprisingly intuitive, things are so much simpler to do and the minimalist/unified elegant UI feels like a nice fresh change. I really like the touch keyboard and the improvements offered by The windows OS, the OS is known for being buttery smooth and it’s even faster with the 8x speedy S4 dual core processor, and despite being a “closed” OS it’s still a lot more practical than iOS, for example you can access your phone storage by simply plugging it to your PC and you can share files with any other device using Bluetooth, I'm just annoyed most 3D games on the windows store still do not yet support 720p screen and therefore they look pixelated on the super dense screen, HTC/Microsoft should aggressively push developers to better support their OS and provide more apps.
In short compared to the much bulkier less attractive lumi920 and like many expert reviews concluded, the HTC 8x is simply the best Windows Phone 8.
If anyone is interested, i've reviewed the Windows Phone 8x, being for HTC's website, it's a little enthusiastic
Simply the Best Windows Phone 8
i still did pass my critic in the review though
main bad points scattered through out the review:
- worse view angles than the One X screen, in specific certain angles
- slow shutter and viewfinder in the front camera
- missing fast burst mode from the main camera
- very bad games support for the 720p screen
all the other good stuff however are honestly true
you would of thought by now that with how fast tech is moving that they would push there gaming developers to make games for 720p by now for Windows OS..
I did forget to complain about the hard to press power button...
it had to be enthusiastic because im reviewing it as an owner and not as a professional reviewer
compared to the Lumia 920 there is no match to the form factor and weight but Nokia does a much better job supporting their device in the windows store
still all Windows Phone has a series app ecosystem problem right now
@hamdir, can you tell us now what you idea was for Htc which made you get the phone?
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no i'm an elevate remember? its parts of the activities but really they make us work for it
also didn't I PM you once about this?
Android OEMs are not generous when it comes to GPUs, even on flagships and despite agressively pushing pixel density
the S4pro, Adreno 320 in optimal cooling situation was a match to onscreen performance of the iPhone 5, at 1080p its greatly less, so all the Q1 2013 1080p snapdragon devices are lagging again behind Apple, meanwhile the iPad4 already leaves everyone in the smokes
Notice how intel PC chipsets are always lacking in GPU power, despite the entire world nagging about the massive difference between its chips and discrete GPUs? certain OEMs simply choose to ignore the importance of GPU power...or maybe leverage the need for GPUs to force you to upgrade
as for Tegra, no one is saying Nvidia's performance in the mobile world had been optimal, in fact we all know they are late into the GPU game despite being the GPU inventor, that being said, Tegra does offer a lot, all my previous devices were snapdragons (1, 2 and 3) and i can assure you i was never pleased, my dual krait windows 8x did not make me change my mind either....software is always lacking, game support, drivers and the general screen off endurance, qualcomm pushes their chipsets and forget about them, if something is broken they fix it in the next revision
on the other hand Tegra 3 despite how much we struggled fixing gaming issues, is still a much better chip in my opinion, a lot more thermally stable than snapdragons (remains stable even during insane heat), extremely fast Android speed, every bit we loose in screen on endurance we gain in screen off, gaming locked performance in THD games and performance/drivers are constantly updated from Nvidia's part , Nvidia milked T3 for much over a year without changing anything in it's specs, this is very impressive and good to the consumer, it provides a stable software support and something like a stable console cycle, unlike snapdragons which are constantly being updated in hardware
I can assure you I never owned an Android device as stable as the One X
let compare 2012's snapdragon 4? at least 8 variations with much different performance between each, in fact if you dont dig the model number of the snapdragon 4 you will be mislead by performance, just like variation with Adreno 203/305 and dual/quad A5 showed us, on the other hand, there is one and only Tegra 3, the difference in clocks is no big deal just like the Nexus 7 has proven, its a much more transparent approach and better commitment toward the consumer
snapdragons are over hyped for one simple reason, their integrated radios saving device makers a huge amount of headache and money
i've added this to my reply
and yes it's really such a shame, an amazing device in every word but the OS is still not taking off, you can actually say the OS is not worthy of the device...
consider this, many apps like youtube and facebook are build by MS shows how neglected it is...
HTC is to use a new camera sensor on its much-rumoured HTC M7 smartphone, Pocket-lint can confirm, that will use what the company calls Ultrapixels.
Although rumours currently suggest that the new smartphone will use a 13-megapixel sensor, sources familiar with the matter have told Pocket-lint that won't be the case. Well, not exactly.
The new camera will instead be made up of three 4.3-megapixel sensor layers that are used to combine into a single resulting image. Three lots of 4.3 may add up to around 13-megapixels, but images from HTC's latest won't be larger than 4.3-megapixels in size.
The technique, similar to that used by Sigma in the Foveon X3 sensor, means that three lots of data can represent one final pixel. All that extra data can be intelligently "combined" to generate a crisper, cleaner image with better colour accuracy.
The technique is also close to the way Nokia can handle image data with the camera in the 808 PureView, or Fujifilm's EXR system in its compact cameras - but both companies opt for a more conventional sensor structure.
The HTC could lie somewhere between these variety of techniques.
The Ultrapixel sensor is expected to be a core feature of the new M7 smartphone - the name of which is still to be officially confirmed - and, presumably, the way that HTC will stop consumers being confused that its new flagship phone will only come with what, on the surface, is a 4-megapixel sensor.
Nokia had a similar issue with the Nokia 808 Pureview's boasts of a 41-megapixel sensor which was only available in one mode, whereas the smartphone's more common settings would restrict output to 8-megapixels which boasted greater clarity.
Ultrapixel is ultimately remarketing the megapixel. Whether it will become a part of your daily vocabulary from 19 February, well, we'll just have to wait and see...
In my opinion, the 8x and 920 are slow, after pressing the home button, you have to wait for the animation to end before you can swipe, unlike the old wp7 where you can swipe when the animation is still going.
"Right now, the One X has few serious rivals. It's blessed with a gorgeous screen as well as an attractive design, and it houses a terrifying amount of power within that svelte and lightweight frame."
Put simply, the HTC One X stole the show at Mobile World Congress
"Engadget"
The HTC One X features a beautifully crafted polycarbonate unibody that has the ruggedness of metal but is super lightweight. With seamless construction, the unibody combines a unique high gloss 'piano' finish and a matte back. HTC One X is blazing fast with the new NVIDIA® Tegra 3 Mobile Processor for clear graphics, faster applications and longer battery life. It includes a 1.5GHz Super 4-PLUS-1™ quad-core with an integrated fifth Battery Saver Core and a high-performance 12-Core NVIDIA® GPU. The HTC One X also has an amazing 4.7-inch, 720p HD screen crafted from contoured Corning™ Gorilla Glass. HTC One X will also be available in select 4G LTE markets with a LTE-enabled Qualcomm Snapdragon S4™ processor with up to 1.5GHz dual-core CPU’s.
The HTC One X begins with a beautiful crafted poly-carbonate uni-body, it got the ruggedness of metal but its super-light, the uni-body has authentic color through and through and it's super rugged, super durable. We thought a lot how to get the most out of this poly-carbonate uni-body and we began with seamless construction, the One X has this beautiful piano gloss edge around the perimeter of the phone and a matt back surface, it's the intersection of these two textures that creates a crisp surface break, it's this detail that really maximizes the precision and beauty of the material, we've taken this premium housing and combined it with 3D Gorilla glass, the glass curves and flows over the edge, this phone feels great when you pick it up, in fact when i'm using this phone i'm always rubbing my finger around the outside surface, it really feels awesome, we've obsessed about the tiniest of details on the One X, a good example is the way we've micro drilled the speakers holes to reach that perfect edge, it's attention to detail like this that really sets it apart, i like to describe the One X by distilling it down to three basic ideas, piano gloss side walls, curved glass and a simple iconic camera detail, it's the whole design sysyncly described in three short phrases
The HTC One S is for people who want a high-end smartphone in a more compact size. It is powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor with up to 1.5GHz dual-core CPU’s. It also includes a 4.3-inch screen crafted from contoured Corning™ Gorilla Glass. HTC One S brings HTC’s innovative metal unibody styling to a new thin 7.9-mm design, making it HTC’s thinnest phone yet. The HTC One S sports two new finishes that break new ground in mobile phone innovation. The first is an ultra-matte black Ceramic Metal surface that is the result of a microarc oxidation (MAO) process originally developed for use in satellites. It transforms the surface of the aluminum unibody into a ceramic, super-dense crystalline structure that is four times harder than anodized aluminum, enabling the HTC One S to look great over time. The second finish for the One S takes anodizing to a new level with a new patented process that creates a light-to-dark gradient fade that looks gorgeous and sophisticated
Definite performance increase.
Highest old quadrant 4,879 with standard 4.03
Highest New Quadrant5,609 with standard 4.04
What has changed to make such a drastic difference ??